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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Buckle up buttercup.
Well, it's another gorgeous dayit's about that time, or it is.
While we're recording, we'reactually pre-recording this one
because we are about to head tothe High Point Furniture Market,
yeah, and we will just begetting home.
Oh, but it's time for anotherepisode of who's Driving.

(00:20):
Welcome to who's Driving.
I'm Wesley Turner and I'mStephen Merck, we're two best
friends and entrepreneurs who'sDriving is an entertaining look
into the behind the scenes ofour lives, friendship and
business.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
These are the stories we share and topics we discuss,
as two best friends would on along road trip.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Along the way, we'll check in with friends and offer
a wide range of informativetopics centered around running
small businesses, social mediaand all things home and garden.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Buckle up and enjoy the ride.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
You never know who's driving or where we're headed.
All we know is it's always afun ride.
So we have some follow-ups todo.
This week we're going to diveinto a couple of really funny
ones from our hotline, headingback to some awkward moments,
and I thought another aboutanother one for you.

(01:08):
I need to know who that one waswe'll have to text them.
I'm sure they listen, so maybethey'll text us back and let us
know I don't think there was aname.
I need a name.
Who that was, who that was?

Speaker 2 (01:18):
okay, are we picking on me?
Oh, always, hey, I'm so glad Ican be your.
Uh, you know content, yeahyou're so good at it.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
But before we get into that still getting bullied
we are heading to the.
We're heading to the high pointfurniture market.
So our next episode we willhave to talk about the trends
that we're seeing, uh, there atthe High Point Market.
You know we always love to do alittle follow-up to see what

(01:50):
the trends are and what we'reseeing and that sort of thing.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Well, this April market is usually the market
where you do see the new thingsand trends Furniture, market and
picking up from last week'sepisode talking about tariffs
and that sort of thing.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
They'll be, that'll be the buzz we'll be hearing.
Yeah, what's it?
What's everybody do what?
What's?
What are they doing?
Or, you know, some vendors, Imean, and rightfully so and
probably smartly, we'll use itas a marketing thing.
You know, if you get your orderin here at market we got some
market specials.
That's what we would do for thetariffs come in.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah, I mean that's called smart.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah, usually they'll give some type of discount or
something when something likethat's going to happen, or
they'll say, oh, I don't knowwhat we're going to be up
against, I don't know that.
So we'll give you the fullmarket update on the next
episode since this one.
We would have just gotten backlast night, um, there from there

(02:51):
.
So let's dive into this.
So a few episodes back.
Uh, we've talked about someawkward moments and that sort of
thing, uh.
But I guess, before we get intothat, hold on, let me backtrack
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It has an app.
Well, I'm behind, look guys.
Oh, oh, it tells you I'm at32.4 ounces for today.
You better get to drinking.
Well, I can't drink so muchwhen we're doing this.
I'll have to pee every fiveminutes.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
You got time to make it up.
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Your height and it tells youhow much you should drink.
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(05:06):
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at the restaurant.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Do you cheat?
I don't cheat, but I don't say.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Let me just say I had some water and I mean why
nobody sees it but me?
No, I don't cheat.
Try to look at it and you know,and tell myself it is really a
good thing and I know it's inour.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
There's a little block on our members only
community, but I'll put it downin the show notes if you're just
listening to and you're readyfor your water bottle and intake
there.
But anyway, that's a littleplug from there.
So a few weeks ago we talkedabout awkward moments.
It was awkward moments day andI think we touched on this a few
times.
I have a lot of them Since then.

(05:52):
We should just name the podcastthat's our segment, awkward
moments.
It's a segment in every podcastbecause Steven is the gift that
keeps on giving.
That's the thing.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
So awful.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
And then some of you listening kept on giving and
text us and message us.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
There's a few of you out there that are right up
there with me.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
And so I printed off two of my favorites for this
episode.
This one is someone wrote in Iprinted off nice and big here
that says we were eating at myin-laws for Sunday lunch and I'm
very playful with my husband.
We do have four kids, wink, youknow.
So you know it's fun to be goodand playful.

(06:35):
And I was cleaning up in thekitchen and thought my husband
had walked up beside me and Ireached down and gave him a
little playful rub in the crotcharea.
You know a little tease.
Hey, baby, it wasn't my husband, it was my brother-in-law.
We can all still laugh about itnow In my defense.

(06:58):
They are same height, similarbuild and wear similar clothes.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
Was it really an oops ?

Speaker 1 (07:04):
Yeah, or did you just play it off, did you?

Speaker 2 (07:07):
did you just?
Had you been just wanting tograb it?

Speaker 1 (07:11):
oh my god, but that is awkward.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
That is something you would do, oh that would be so I
think dylan would take me outand kill me If you were over at
his family's house and grabsomeone.
Yeah, and his sister has aboyfriend now, and he's petite.
He's very small in stature too.
That could happen.
Oh my God, Please, oh mygoodness.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
I would just die.
But that's a good laugh, onceyou get past it, you know.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
Yeah, I have lots of good laughs and I'm good with
not laughing for a while.
I'd rather laugh at somebodyelse.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeah, this one, I didn't even read you.
This one went to a funeral homefor a viewing before the
visitation, signed the book andleft and was talking to my
friend about how bad the personlooked.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
It wasn't them.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
And she said well, I thought he looked good.
And at that time I realized Ihad gone to the wrong funeral
home.
And this person just happenedto have the same first name as
the man I was going to see.
But at least no one else knew.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
No one knew and they were like that was so nice of
Sally Farmer for coming by.
We don't know who the hell itis.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
Who is?

Speaker 2 (08:31):
Sally, yeah, yeah, I bet that was one of his
girlfriends.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
She probably added all kinds of gossip Gossip going
on.
Especially if it was in theSouth, I knew that tramp would
come.
Did y'all see her?
I didn't even see her here,that was that teller at the bank
that was his old secretary,wasn't that her name?
Oh my gosh, just causing allkinds of drama.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
The thoughts are coming up in here, oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
We were on the phone last night speaking.
We'll switch to you now.
Listen, just go with it.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
I'm going to create awkward moments for you so that
I am not in the hunt.
I think I probably have awkwardmoments.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
You just don't remember them and bring them up.
You know, one of us has to bethe secretary of the friendship.
I guess we were on the phoneand I don't know how it came up,
but and Dylan was there, and weyou and I started laughing
about this, about how?
Because Dylan wouldn't rememberthat, you know, dylan's a young

(09:40):
, he's a young and he's what?
29 now 29.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
Oh, my goodness.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
To trade him in when he he's young, he's what, 29 now
29.
Oh my goodness, to trade him insoon.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
It's about awkward when he gets 36,.
I'm trading him in on two 18s.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
That is not even funny, but it was a good saying
Good punchline there.
But no, we were talking aboutpeople bouncing checks.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
It's different now because it is electronic but no,
we were talking about peoplebouncing checks and it's
different now because it iselectronic.
Everything is electronic and ifyou know me, okay, I am well, I
mean, I'm anal about everything, but I am very particular and I
still write checks.
I think I count it, I think Icounted.
I think I have seven checkbooks.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
So, steve, did you ever get a debit card?
You did for the businesseventually.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
You made me with the business account.
Yeah, no, I don't have a.
I've never had a debit card.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
I will never have a debit card unless I have to Wow.
You have credit cards that youuse.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
I use credit cards.
It's safe.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
It's not coming out of my bank account.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
I know.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
I know Steven is so old school Like he will still
take his check to the bank todeposit it when you can just do
it right there on your mobileapp.
And the bank doesn't even, likemost banks, including ours that
we go to, don't even havedeposit slips anymore.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
But I took their deposit slips when I knew they I
had.
They finally told me you're theonly person that uses deposit
slips and I got all they had,and then I made copies.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
Yeah, so he still turns in.
I want a record, yeah, adeposit slip.
I haven't deposited.
I, you know, still have checksfor the business.
If we didn't have the business,I would never write a check.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
Dylan doesn't have checks.
I was like I need a check.
He's like for something.
I said I need a check or youneed to write a check.
And he said I don't have, I'vewrite a check and he said I've
never had checks.
I was like what?
Yeah, you've never had check.
I have seven, not, I have sevendifferent checking accounts.

(11:57):
Yeah, not including thebusiness.
Oh my gosh.
Well, I mean, it's allnecessity, is it though?

Speaker 1 (12:08):
well, but if you have this money market account, this
money market, I still havechecks because of the business,
but with that I haven'tdeposited a check.
If I have to deposit a check, Ieither go to the ATM and I put
it in right there or I take apicture.
I do the mobile deposit on myphone.

(12:29):
I haven't talked to a teller inyears.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
Well, I know what you're going to tell, because we
were talking about it.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
I, I.
He bounced the check.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
One check in my life.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
But it wasn't his fault, it wasn't my fault, of
course it wasn't.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
My first partner.
We were together 12 years.
We've talked about that Blah,blah, blah, blah, blah and great
guy.
But Was he?
Yeah, he was.
I mean I wouldn't have kept himfor 12 years if he didn't have
good qualities.
I mean he would not pass thetest now and especially he did

(13:12):
he.
He's not a fraction of dylan um, but he was as buttoned up as I
am and keeping it together andorganized.
He was the polar opposite.
So I've always had a checkbook.
I kept it perfect.
He would just grab randomcheckbooks, you know, with the

(13:36):
same account, drove me crazy andthrow it in his back pocket.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
So then they weren't even in the same numerical order
, because you might be writingout of one book.
He might be writing out of onebook, he might be writing out of
another book.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
So that was our household checkbook and that was
his.
My name was on it.
That was his, I had mine.
Mine was to the penny.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
Of course you did, but Only child Selfish.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
But, mm-hmm, I had written a check out of that
account.

Speaker 1 (14:04):
Your house account.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
Out of the house account back in the day.

Speaker 1 (14:07):
This was the 90s.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
I had written a check to Pizza Hut Pizza Hut and it
was like $30.
It was nothing.
Well, that dumbass lost thatcheckbook that I had written it
out, didn't mention, didn't sayanything.

(14:29):
I think I lost it.
He lost it.
He called the bank and canceledthat whole book of checks.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
My one check to Pizza Hut was in there and I remember
I was doing yard work.
Uh, the mailman came by anddropped the mail on the porch
that was back in the day and Isaw an envelope from the bank
uh-huh and it was hot pink paperinside.

(15:00):
Well, I'd always heard thatmeans it's a return.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
A return, a bounce check.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
It was that check.
Oh my God, I had an absolutecome apart.
Yeah, I was like, why did Ibounce?
And we always kept a lot ofmoney in there so I never had to
worry about legit bouncing acheck, yeah, and a lot of money.
I don't know several thousanddollars.

(15:25):
But if you're writing a $ acheck, yeah and a lot of money,
I don't know several thousanddollars.
But if you're writing a $30check, you knew you were covered
.
Yeah, and I called him.
I said why in the hell?

Speaker 1 (15:35):
did my check bounce.

Speaker 2 (15:40):
Oh no, well, I lost that book of checks so I just
called the bank, canceled it all.
I said you are going to takethis down to that pizza hut and
you're going to make it right?
I will never Do.
You know this is a true story.
My ass has never been back tothat pizza hut again.

(16:00):
You think they still know youthere In my mind.
So what we were laughing andtalking about, you know.
We both grew up in the country.
I was in South Carolina, he wasin Tennessee, and so we had.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
Well, also, what I was saying is when we opened
Daniel and I opened Roots backin the day, which was 2009,.
Checks were still hugelypopular.
I feel like they really droppedoff around 17, 18, 19.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
We only get about five or six checks a month.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
It's very few Really.
After COVID I feel likeeveryone got used to no check.
I don't know if they were doingcards because they wouldn't
take things during COVID or what, but after COVID we get like no
checks, very few checks.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
It's like me and a few 90 year olds that write
checks.

Speaker 1 (16:51):
But what we were saying?
Well, you were saying it was soembarrassing to bounce a check
back in the day.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
You were seriously like where I came from.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
You were trash, I mean your name, but everyone has
bounced a check here and there.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
I'm just saying in the little small piddly-ass
southern town.
Yeah Well, really you wasn'ttrash if you bounced the check,
if you didn't go get it.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
So that's what we were talking about.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
Do y'all remember, that's when you hit just trash?

Speaker 1 (17:31):
Yeah, do y'all remember there would be like?
I worked at a gas station andgrowing up I can remember there
was the wall or the board wherethey would print the checks off.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
It would say bad check board, yeah, and they
would just staple them on there.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
Yeah, just put your check up there for everyone to
see.
I mean, it was at checkout soyou could see.
You only got on there if youdidn't come back and pay yeah
within like 30 days.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
You had time to pay and make it right, they would
call you so, honestly, if youdidn't, you were kind of trash
because you were stealing fromthat business.
Yeah, because you knew it wasthere.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
They didn't do it right away.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
No, no, no, no.
They would give you a chancebecause you know everybody's
been guilty, like me with thePizza Hut.
It happens yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:19):
So Dylan was like what.
And we were like yeah, theyused to put you on the wall.
On the wall if you didn't comepick up your check.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
But one time we you and I we had a lady here in
Greenville.
I wish she listened to us.
I'm not going to call out thechurch, but her husband was the
minister of music.
It wasn't in Greenville, it wasin Greenville County and she

(18:50):
was shoplifting from all thesestores on Augusta Road.
Yeah, and she was arrested.
Like we got her tag number andit ended up being like six
different businesses.
She was supposed to payrestitution and stuff and never
did.
And we went on Facebook and weprinted out her picture and hung

(19:13):
it at the register In allfairness, so the employees would
know if she's coming in there.
You need to watch out.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
You need to watch out .

Speaker 2 (19:24):
It's true, she was stealing and she had no reason
to she.
Something was wrong with her,obviously, but it was funny
because when we, when the policecalled and we found out who it
was, of course we took tofacebook to see who it was.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
We took two.
That's a Southernism.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
So we went and found out who she was, and I said, and
we saw who her husband was, andI said, oh my goodness, there's
McDonald's owners that go tothat church.
So you know, I had to call theMcDonald's owners and I'm like,
do you know so and so and theywere like, oh yeah, her husband

(20:08):
is our minister of music.
I said, well, she just robbedus it's true, I'm not awkward,
it was awkward.
Yeah, I don't know if they stillgo there, but I still think of
that.
There was an advertisement Isaw something on Facebook for.
I don't know if they still gothere, but I still think that

(20:30):
there was an advertisement.
I saw something on Facebook forthat church.
And listen, it's nothingagainst that church, they can't
help it For their Easter program.
And I was like I wonder if theystill go there.
Oh yeah, it just makes youwonder Because she was a
nice-looking, very well, verywell dressed, very well put
together lady.
It was like a Winona Rydersituation.

Speaker 1 (20:53):
I just think she did it for a thrill or something.
Well, some people just, yeah,it's a thrill, it's almost like
a drug.
You know, they get a thrill,they get adrenaline from it and
I mean that's what a klepto youknow kleptomaniac is.
And speaking back in my smalltown, you know my grandmother
had the Merle Norman.
And we have a little square.

(21:14):
But there was a lady and herhusband was in.
Was he a judge or a lawyer?

Speaker 2 (21:20):
I can't maybe I shouldn't give out too much.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
But anyway she was, that she was a klepto and
everyone knew it and it ended upthat you know she was a klepto,
she would steal and then thehusband would get it and bring
it all back to the businesses.
Or they would call him and say,hey, like just so you know, and
then he would bring it back.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
And there's another lady here in Greenville and I'm
not going to give out anyinformation.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
That's the difference when you're a small town.
So they didn't call the police,they all worked it out.
They would just call and saybut you know?

Speaker 2 (21:57):
there's a woman here in Greenville and everybody
knows who she is and she's notpoor, pitiful, she's well-to-do,
and everybody knows who she isand, um, no one has ever
prosecuted.
It's really, I mean it's kind ofodd.

(22:18):
Yeah, I mean I know who she is,so like I know who she is, she
knows me, I don't know, it'sjust odd.
Like when I see her in one ofthe stores I'm like hey, are you
stealing today?
You know, I'm thinking tomyself and I'm not like I don't.

(22:40):
I try to be a nice person, so Idon't ever want to embarrass
anybody and she obviously hassomething wrong with her.
But you know, there's that partof me.
I'm like you better not bestealing from me, because I will
snatch you baldheaded righthere in front of everybody.
You know, I don't have anytolerance for that and I feel

(23:03):
weird and I always think doesshe know?
I'm watching her?
Yeah, and I'm like God.
She's carrying that bigkeep-all-Louis bag today.
You know she's just filling itup.
Yeah, you can't help.
But think big, keep all Louiebag today.
You know she's just feeling it,yeah, you can't help it.
And like I even had seen her inother businesses and I'm like,

(23:23):
oh, what'd she get?
You can't help it.
Think like that, yeah, and youknow, she may have, she may have
gotten help, she may have quit.
Um, I don't know, I have notseen anything.
Um, I mean, she has stolen fromfriends that have businesses,

(23:44):
yeah, and everybody you knowgives her a pass or whatever.
Maybe they shouldn't, maybe shethey should, so she can get
help, but it's, it's so awkward,I'm just like I just want to
say just don't come in here,because it just you make me
sweat.
Yeah, I get the.
I get that stinky sweat whenshe comes around just that cold,
just like.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
What is she stealing?
What is she doing?

Speaker 2 (24:08):
and and it's weird because she had not only steals
from businesses yeah, she hasstolen from friends.
Oh, like their homes, oh,that's even.
I mean we've stolen fromcentral as a joke and she's
stolen.
That was a joke.
You know, we do it and then putit on it's, you know, and send

(24:31):
it back.
Yeah, but not really.
But I did so.
It's already out there.
Our friend, central oninstagram, is opening a business
.
Oh, yeah, um, so I did tell herwe're gonna shoplift something
and see if we get caught.
Oh, we should.
I mean, I want to tell herbecause we're not really, we're

(24:52):
not really stealing.
We will give it back, but Ithink it's a good test for her
as a retailer.

Speaker 1 (24:59):
We need to go when she opens and be secret shoppers
and shoplift too.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
And I want to know how good are you?
Are you doing a good job?
How much did we get Because wecould leave and take it to her
house?

Speaker 1 (25:14):
Just leave it on her porch.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
We just shopped with you and here's what we got.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
We walked out with all of this and no one
questioned us.
That would be fun and funny.

Speaker 2 (25:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
And I think she should do it to us.
We have to have her on thepodcast.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
Do y'all know anybody ?
Do you have anybody in yourtown?
That's like that.
Do y'all know?

Speaker 1 (25:35):
anybody.
Do you have anybody in yourtown that's like that.
Are you a klepto or a thief andwilling to talk?

Speaker 2 (25:41):
about it.
We interview It'd be anonymous,we won't tell your name.
No, no, no, no, no no.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
We just want to know we want to pick your brain?

Speaker 2 (25:49):
Why?

Speaker 1 (25:56):
And what has been your biggest take?
Yes, and what do you get fromit?
Like, do you just like thethrill or do you like the
product?
Or do you get the product homeand you're like, ugh, I don't
want this shit.
And you know it's on to thenext thing.
Like, did you steal somethingyou really wanted and you stole
it because you wanted it, or doyou steal it just to see if you
can get away with it and thelike adrenaline you wanted it or
do you steal it just to see ifyou can get away with it?

Speaker 2 (26:16):
And the adrenaline.
We've never talked about thisand again we're not.
We're not calling out any names.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
I know one of you out there, statistically speaking,
one of you out there is got alittle habit, so call us or text
us at 864-982-5029.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
I want to talk to you .
Yeah, we do.
Well, we had an employee onetime.
Oh Again, we're not going tocall anybody out, we're not
trying to ruin nobody.
There's another Southernism, goahead.
So we were just.
It was after hours and it wasthe three of us.

(26:57):
Yeah, and we were just having achit-chat conversation.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
It's like we had closed up the store.
I don't even know how it cameup.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
This is a well-to-do employee.
Okay, this is a fancy person.
And we were just chit-chattingand she just flat out told us
and laughed telling us how shewould go to like Walgreens with

(27:30):
her children in a stroller andstill make up.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
She would just drop it in the stroller, oops.

Speaker 2 (27:40):
Just dropped it in there and would go out and we
and I, we both thought it was ajoke.
That's funny.
She was like yeah, I was likewait, are you?

Speaker 1 (27:54):
serious, she's like yeah, yeah it was just drugstore
makeup.

Speaker 2 (27:59):
I mean, who really cares?
That was her.
That's a quote, right, and Ihave to this day not, I've
forgotten that yeah, I can't getpast it.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
Well, I mean, and as soon as that conversation was
over and we left the building,we immediately called each other
and was like, okay, she's gotto go.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
How do?

Speaker 1 (28:25):
we get rid of her.
Because if she'll do that, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
Oh and then, oh my gosh, talking about small world,
and I'll give hints on thisperson.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
Oh, mm-hmm, do I know this story?

Speaker 2 (28:42):
You're tied into it in a convoluted way.
So way before Wesley I had aneighbor that lived across the
street.
Fancy neighbor.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
Because you know, I lived in the zip code and this
was fancy neighbor and we hadgone shopping together in her
mercedes benz just want to throwthat in there in her mercedes
and, um, I'm just gonna tell youright now, this old boy, I've

(29:18):
never done anything like that,still none of that.
And we had came back and we hadgone for a walk, yeah, and we
went by a local business nearours now and they had a garden
area in the back and it wasfenced in, but it was like like

(29:41):
you would have your chickensfenced in like a patio, fence
like a patio four foot tall likeyou could bend down and pick
something up.
And she said and we were lookingin there and I'm innocent, were
y'all?
Walking walking, okay.
And she said what do you want?
And I said you know, veryinnocent, oh, I like that.
Oh, I like that.

(30:02):
Yeah, I was like I may comeback tomorrow, you know.
And she was like, and she saidwe'll get it.
And I said huh I said, well, Imight.
I, I mean, I'll come tomorrowwhen they're open.
And and then I was likethinking to myself, well, I
really can't afford that.
Yeah, anyway, window shopping,yeah.
And she's like, well, justlet's get it, no one will know.

(30:23):
And you're like mm-mm, when Itell you.
Right.
Then at that moment I saidmm-mm, I'm not friends with you
anymore.
And I said I don't care whatyou do, you do you, I'm taking

(30:46):
my ass home.
Yeah, like that was the end,and I walked my ass home.
I was like I am not going to be, I'm not even walking with you
if you are taking something,right, that's crazy.
And so fast forward like 10, 15years later.
I know what you're going totell me.

(31:06):
Yeah, we had at Roots a lady.
Stop in still hanging basketson the side of the building.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
In her Mercedes.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
It was an SUV.
It looked like a Mercedes or aBMW, and I looked at her and I
told Wesley I told Wesley thisstory.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
And I said and you could not, it was so grainy you
could not tell specifics.
And I said I you could not, itwas so grainy, you could not
tell specifics.
And I said I swear, that lookslike her.
Well, we are investigators.
We looked up where she lived,her address, we drove by there.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
Well, no, then someone.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
Well, someone called the store and said because you
put it on social media, yeah,this is what happened.
It was great.

Speaker 1 (31:55):
This went on for years, forever remember that
time someone still I mean itwent years.
This went viral in our areabefore viral was a term.
I mean it was being passedaround.
Who is this?
Because the video was well whatit was.
It was at nighttime and weforgot to put.
We had hanging baskets hangingdown the side of the building

(32:17):
and we forgot to put them in thelocked-in area.
Car drives up at night grabsall these hanging baskets.
You can tell it's either like amercedes or a bmw, you know,
like a luxury suv and it's nightvision.
So it's not that it's like badgrainy, but it's night vision.
So you can't tell perfectly,but it was good enough that

(32:40):
everyone was passing this videoaround on Facebook.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
Everywhere it was the best.

Speaker 1 (32:45):
I mean those hanging baskets got us.
It was worth the steal.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
So randomly one day someone so I'd had this
conversation with Wesley and andwe were like I was like I swear
it looks like her build.
But she had long moved away and, you know, lived in a different
neighborhood over on the eastside and blah, blah, blah and I
was like god it, I swear itlooks like her build, but

(33:11):
there's no way, yeah, likeshouldn't even live on this side
of town.
And we kind of ended it there.
And then someone calledanonymously to the store and
said just want you to know thisreally looks like, and they
named her, okay, and I said ohmy gosh, you're like I told you

(33:32):
Somebody else sees that it's her.
I told you somebody else seesthat it's her.
So we looked up where she livedand we went to see if it were
was her car.
But she had it in the garage.
So we never solved that, but Iyou still think.
I think it was her.

Speaker 1 (33:49):
Well, it is coincidental that you thought
that immediately you were like Ithink this is so-and-so.
And you told me this story andI was like really, and then we
were trying to, you know, lookup on Facebook and stuff, and
then someone called and said Ijust want you to know, I'm
pretty sure that's so-and-so.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
And they were adamant about it.

Speaker 1 (34:07):
Yeah, they were like that.
I mean coincidentally.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
Lightning doesn't strike the same tree twice.
Like it was too yeah.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
I don't know how we got off on this, but it started
with so do you remember the badcheck wall or the bad check
board?
It would be at the grocerystore, the gas station.

Speaker 2 (34:28):
All your local little mom and pop places.
Oh yeah, I mean, you knew notto show your face there.
Oh yeah, you better pick upthat check and honestly in all
fairness, because you had 30damn days to go make that right
and they would have been like Iget it no problem, rip that up
Over and done.

(34:48):
Nobody judge you, but youcheated them out Of the money.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
Yeah, it's true.
Now there's no.
You know what kind of people.
Someone would probably sue youthese days for putting I don't
know, I'd still put it up there.
Someone puts up a bad checkAlso.
Now it's happened to us, Idon't know when the We'll
probably get one now it's been afew years since I've gotten a
bad check.
But you can also just send themback through and then they, you

(35:14):
know, if there's money in there, then it just goes through, or
whatever.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
So most of the stealing we have with people now
is just taking advantage of us.
Yeah, but not outwardlystealing, it's more just.
We're going to take advantageof you.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
I just thought of another awkward moment that
involves you, what we startedtalking about this in a live
sale the other day.
I don't know how it came up.
I think I was talking about.
I've been recently working onsome projects, business things
and I've had to do more Zoomcalls than I've ever had to do.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
Oh yeah, You've got a big project.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
I got through all of COVID and stuff like that, with
very few Zooms or videoconferencing.
Just, we work for ourselves.
It's the one area I feel likeI've gotten left behind in,
because when I do it when I doit, though, and have to do these
things, it's not natural Notthe video part, but I don't know
where to click.
They're like, oh, can you shareyour screen?

(36:14):
And I'm like, oh, can you shareyour screen?
And I'm like how do I do this?
And then I feel awkward andflustered when everyone else.

Speaker 2 (36:22):
I know, I know what you're telling now.
Well, I was in the corporateworld, and With McDonald's if
you didn't know.
Yeah, and I was a leadershipowner, which means I was on the
board.
You know, I was the liaisonbetween the company and owners,
if you will.

(36:43):
Yeah, so I had to.

Speaker 1 (36:45):
This is his awkward moment.
We're getting to that wethought about.
That's how we got there.
I was talking about me beingawkward and having to do the
same.

Speaker 2 (36:51):
This is the number one.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
You think this stops shitting your pants?
Yes, you were.
This stops shitting your pants.
Yes, you were more embarrassedby this this I almost lost
consciousness over this.
I remember so this was yearsago, and Stephen, so video
conferencing would have beenkind of newer.

Speaker 2 (37:15):
It was very new and I'm an idiot.

Speaker 1 (37:17):
So this cause?
This would have been like 2012.
We live next door to you for ahot minute.
We rented a house next door toyou, daniel and I did, and I
remember we lived next door toyou and I came over and you he
was all disheveled First of all.
He had just like woken up.

Speaker 2 (37:35):
Well, it was so when I owned McDonald's, I worked
very late and I did my ownaccounting and everything.
So then I would work in themiddle of the night when I got
home.
So I slept in, yeah, and Ithere was a.
It was webcast then, yeah.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
That was a big thing.
I came over and your hair.
He's got this baby fine hairanyway.
It's like cotton candy itsticks up like what are those
little we used to have on thepencils back in the day.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
Troll dolls, troll dolls that's what his hair looks
like.

Speaker 1 (38:12):
Yeah, and then he'll have on some type used to like
ratty T-shirt.

Speaker 2 (38:17):
Or no shirt at all.

Speaker 1 (38:19):
Shorts, Just ratty Homeless Looking.
I walked in and you were like Iam going to die.
You will not believe what I did.
This is bad.

Speaker 2 (38:33):
I'm going to die, not believe what I did.
This is bad.
I'm gonna die.
There was a 10 10 am meeting ona webcast that I was presenting
, but I had called marketing andsaid I don't need video chat,
I'm just going to do it audio inslides.

Speaker 1 (38:55):
Yeah, so it would just be your voice in slides, in
slides, that's all I needed.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
I didn't need to be on there, and so I rolled out of
bed at like 9.30.
At that time I drank like what?
A case of Diet Coke a day yeah,literally.
So I had popped my Diet Coke.
I was in my office at my desk,and my hair was.

Speaker 1 (39:21):
Troll doll.

Speaker 2 (39:21):
Troll doll hair and I just had on panties.
No T-shirt, no shirt, nothing,just like a hat and shave.

Speaker 1 (39:31):
I think you should take your hat off and your shirt
off.
And give them a visual.
Give them a visual of what thiswould look like.
It was bad.

Speaker 2 (39:39):
I had not brushed my teeth, I had not shaved my face.
It was bad, bad, bad, bad, bad,bad, bad.
But I made it to my desk andI'm talking, being all
professional and going throughmy slides, I do not know what
the hell I did and I somehow hit, hit the video, the video

(40:06):
button.
It gets worse.
I didn't know that.
I hit the video button, so Iwas there like just nappy as
hell, nasty just drink it.
Still didn't know it.

(40:27):
And a marketing person that isan angel said oh, and I see
steven there drinking a dietcoke.
Well, that was my cue I.
I almost threw that computerout the window.

(40:48):
Oh my gosh, to this day, okay.
Unless you're doing a lot ofvideo conferences or anything.
Put a sticker over the camera.

Speaker 1 (41:02):
The camera.
Well, you know a lot ofcomputers now have a little
thing you can slide over it,Like it has a little slide thing
so that you can close off yourcamera.

Speaker 2 (41:13):
I literally almost lost consciousness.
I thought I was going to fallinto the floor, did you just
black?

Speaker 1 (41:22):
out.
At that I felt my.

Speaker 2 (41:25):
And so I didn't know what to do.
So I grabbed and just put myhand over the camera and I think
I just stopped everything.
And it was so bad.
And there were and just toappreciate there were about 450

(41:47):
McDonald's owners and corporateand corporate and you're
supposed to be doing aleadership thing like uh yeah,
yeah, I'm the example.
You're the example, all right,oh my, but you know what?
Then, like, literally, I wouldsay, that's one time I seriously

(42:12):
thought about suicide and I'mnot even joking, I was
that—humiliation.
Seriously, this is a fact.
Embarrassment and humiliationis like one of the number one
reasons of people doing that.
And then I was like, okay,stephen, get a grip, you know
what?
No one can fire you.

(42:33):
I mean, I'm an owner.
What can they do?
Knock me off of leadership?
Okay, so, and then I thoughtabout it how many people were
just listening?

Speaker 1 (42:46):
Like how many people were in their cars.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
And then the other thing I thought about is how
many other people look just likeme and said, oh my God, I feel
bad for him.
So then I was like I don't givea damn.

Speaker 1 (43:01):
For about a day.

Speaker 2 (43:02):
you did, and I know, even at that I looked better
than a lot of those people onthat call I mean, or I just
busted at that I looked betterthan a lot of those people on
that call.

Speaker 1 (43:08):
I mean, I just busted out laughing when I walked in
and you told me that and I waslike, oh no, it's going to be OK
.

Speaker 2 (43:15):
And I had to go to a meeting the next day and face
people.

Speaker 1 (43:22):
Oh, my goodness.

Speaker 2 (43:25):
It was.
I mean, that was you know,somebody still tells that story.

Speaker 1 (43:38):
They probably forgot about it.
It's only as embarrassing toyou.
They've moved on.
They don't care about it.
Do you remember anybody doingstuff like that?
No, you just go on.
It was funny at the time forthem.

Speaker 2 (43:52):
I hope it was.
I hope they enjoyed it as muchas I did.

Speaker 1 (43:55):
You were distraught, though.
So National Day calendar I gotthat out.
I don't think I talked about itlast week.
Well, I thought.
Since we're getting close tothe month of May, this week it's
going to be on Thursday let'stalk about the monthly
observances for May.

(44:15):
Okay, I'll just run through afew of them.
Barbecue month this is for May.
Okay, I like some barbecue.
Miniature month Miniature, what?
The hell is that Hamburgermonth, egg month, photography
month I like all those things.

Speaker 2 (44:32):
Returning to your youth month.
Oh, I think that means I need afacelift in May.

Speaker 1 (44:44):
Salad month, salsa month, strawberry month, Jewish
American heritage month.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
I don't hate any of those things.
We're just eating the hell upin this month.
Yeah, I don't hate any of thosethings the hell.
Yeah, I don't hate any of those, though, uh, there's none that
are really.
The only stupid one isminiature.
Yeah, I mean, what is that like?
Miniature figurines orminiature dogs?

Speaker 1 (45:02):
okay.
So this week on the 28th, whichwould have been yesterday, is
blueberry pie day.
I'm just gonna hit some ofthese.
I don't do.
I don't do blueberries.
So this week on the 28th, whichwould have been yesterday, is
Blueberry Pie Day.

Speaker 2 (45:08):
I'm just going to hit some of these.
I don't do blueberries.

Speaker 1 (45:11):
The 29th Tuesday.
The 29th is Shrimp Scampi Day Ilike shrimp scampi sometimes.
It's also Zipper Day, nationalZipper Day, oh.

Speaker 2 (45:24):
So here's a question.

Speaker 1 (45:26):
Is that like?

Speaker 2 (45:27):
Do you like zip or button fly button?
What do you like, zipper?

Speaker 1 (45:35):
I like a button fly.
I don't know why.
I feel like there's somethinglike unique.
I feel like it's a littlesexier to have a little button
action than a zipper.

Speaker 2 (45:47):
Always get everything zipped.
I did button fly when that wasthe new thing and I don't like
when I.
This is probably TMI, but if Iuse we have gone way past TMI on
this.
If I go to a urinal if I use aurinal and, ladies, you probably

(46:08):
won't understand this, but if Igo to a urinal I just want to
unzip plop it out do my businessand roll on and with button
flies I always have to undo mybelt and start at the top.

Speaker 1 (46:28):
I can't go to the middle, hold up, wait a minute,
back it up.
So when you go to a urinal youdon't unbutton your button and
unzip.
You don't undo your belt,unbutton your buckle and then

(46:49):
zip it down.
You just unzip it and pull itthrough like this little cave.
Mine won't do that.
Mine's too big to get throughYou're so full of it.
No, I have to start at the top,no matter what, yeah, I have to
start at the top, no matterwhat.
Yeah, I have to undo my beltundo my top button unzip, plop

(47:15):
it out however you want to do it, go at the urinal and then put
it all back together.

Speaker 2 (47:22):
I don't even do that.
If I'm peeing right here inyour house, what Mm-mm?
I ain't doing all that andthat's why I don't see that.
Sorry y'all, that was way tmi,but that's what that's what it's
for.
No, yeah, no, look it up.

(47:43):
That's why.

Speaker 1 (47:44):
That's why your underwear you and you pull it
straight through the opening inyour underwear.

Speaker 2 (47:52):
I do pull it down and out, uh-uh.

Speaker 1 (47:56):
No, because if you, mine doesn't do that, because if
you just unzip it and try topull it through, this has gone
way off.
The zipper hits it sometimesand I had it, I had it.
It shreds it, it feels like it.

Speaker 2 (48:15):
I had.
I had when I was at Clemson.
I went through a period.
This is way TMI.
I went through a period that Ididn't wear underwear.
I don't know why I don't.
I don't know why I did it Well,I do know why I did it.
I know why.
I did it because I could notwork, go to school and keep up
with laundry, so I didn't haveclean, yeah, so I just went

(48:38):
without.
That's the truth.
I zipped it up.

Speaker 1 (48:46):
Oh, you grabbed the skin and the zipper.
That is the worst.
I can remember doing that as,like a kid I did it, tiny kid.

Speaker 2 (48:53):
In college and I thought I was going to have to
call 911.
I almost passed out.
It hurts so bad.

Speaker 1 (49:05):
Even now, if you just unzip it without unbuttoning
your never happen to me againthat hurts so bad.
I'm not talking about zippingit up in there.
I'm talking about because youjust unzip it and the zipper
doesn't spread apart enough.
It grates against your thing.
I kind of hold it.

Speaker 2 (49:26):
I kind of I don't know.
I've just got it down, pat, Ihave to unbutton and unzip.
When I was little I did allthat, but as you, you know, grow
up you realize I don't have todo all that?

Speaker 1 (49:43):
No, because when you unbutton your button to your
pants and then unzip it, itopens up wide enough.

Speaker 2 (49:49):
Yeah, but my pants would fall down, like I always
have on belts, and it would justgo, and I don't want to be at a
urinal with my pants.

Speaker 1 (49:57):
I've never had my pants fall down ever.

Speaker 2 (50:00):
You don't wear like heavy belts and stuff either.
I'm telling you most.
That's how most men do it.

Speaker 1 (50:08):
That is disaster waiting to happen in my no, if I
don't sit down.

Speaker 2 (50:13):
If I'm in my master bathroom, I take them all the
way down and plop my ass down.

Speaker 1 (50:19):
Now I want to know how everyone does it.
But you can't be the urinal andbe like how do you?

Speaker 2 (50:25):
pull it out, do you?

Speaker 1 (50:27):
unzip and pull it through the zipper how?
Do you pull it out, do youunzip and pull it through the
zipper, or do you unbutton allthe way?

Speaker 2 (50:33):
You'll probably get hit if you're like how do you do
it?

Speaker 1 (50:36):
Well, what?

Speaker 2 (50:37):
about you.
No, that's not acceptable in aurinal.

Speaker 1 (50:43):
I need to do an exit interview as they come out.
Can we take the microphone tothe street and stand outside of
like a public bathroom in thepark and be like?
So we just want to know, sir,how do you do it.

Speaker 2 (50:58):
I think most people.
That would be a good one.

Speaker 1 (51:01):
Oh my gosh, I don't even know how we got here.
I'm so flustered now.
No, I have to unbuttonton unzip, so that that makes sense why I
don't mind a button fly thenthat makes sense, because it
didn't make a difference inthere yeah it.
It wrecks my world, it throws mefor a loop uh, there's a lot on
the 30th, which is what day ofthe week is this?

(51:23):
I have to flip this Wednesday.
There's a lot of national dayshere, including Adopt a Shelter,
Pet Day, Bubble Tea Day, BugsBunny Day, Hairstylist
Appreciation Day, Honesty Day,Military Brats Day, Oatmeal
Cookie Day, Raisin Day.
There's some other ones.
Stop Food Waste Day On thefirst.

(51:45):
Oh, we are stacking it upChocolate Parfait Day.
I'll participate in that day.
Yeah, there's a lot of schoolthings going on too Mother Goose
Day.
So there you go.

Speaker 2 (52:00):
So we need to go to our next segment because we've
got things to do and we don'thave time to read that damn
calendar the whole time.

Speaker 1 (52:08):
okay, um well, you got us off on talking about
pulling our wieners out.

Speaker 2 (52:15):
Wiener, wiener a lot of ladies probably found that
interesting.
Southernisms oh, we did not.
You know, we talked last weekabout southernisms and we
covered.
Who you are Is Pecker aSouthernism?

Speaker 1 (52:31):
He probably is Goober Goober.
Are those Southernisms?

Speaker 2 (52:39):
Oh, my God Anyway.

Speaker 1 (52:46):
Our new segment, southernisms by Steven.
He's got your Southernisms ofthe week coming your way.

Speaker 2 (52:56):
So last week we talked about letting you know
who you are if you're movinghere.
Well, we didn't talk about this.
Who?

Speaker 1 (53:02):
we are.
We're the gays.

Speaker 2 (53:03):
Yeah, the gays in the South, we're the gays.
The one you wantays in theSouth, we're the gays.

Speaker 1 (53:08):
The one you want to live next to.

Speaker 2 (53:09):
Yeah, you want them to do your hair.
You want them to do yourflowers.

Speaker 1 (53:13):
And decorate your home.

Speaker 2 (53:14):
Yep and probably pick out your clothes and maybe do
your makeup.
But we, our title is we're theGays and that's the gays.

Speaker 1 (53:29):
Yes, he does my flowers, he does my hair.
It's why it looks so good.

Speaker 2 (53:32):
They love us in the service industry and the men,
the southern men.
Yeah, you know he's gay.
Pretty good fella.
You know, I ain't got noproblem with him being gay as
long as he don't hit on me.
Okay, Now let's talk about thatfor just a second.

Speaker 1 (53:52):
Wait, are we talking about Southernisms or being gay,
because this can go so manydifferent ways.
Both.

Speaker 2 (53:58):
It's one in the same.
This is the Southern men.
This is their take on us.
This is who we are in the Southand, honestly, I've never had
one issue in the south and butthis is coming from a man.
I ain't got no problem, as longas they don't hit on me and I'm

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like your wife, don't even wantto hit on you.
You are 400 pounds and yousmell.
It's always that person.

Speaker 1 (54:33):
It is that person.

Speaker 2 (54:34):
It's that person that says that it's not the hot guy
at the gym.
Yeah, no, no, that actuallysomebody wants to flirt with.
It's always that nasty ass.
Women don't even want you.
Women don't want you.
We definitely don't want you.

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A pit bull, don't want you witha T-bone tied around your neck.
Nobody wants you, and so that'swho we are, because I'm not
going to call out the Yankees oranybody else.

Speaker 1 (55:13):
We're going to keep it fair, we're the gays.

Speaker 2 (55:16):
We know our place, it's fun, we own it.
So a few words Change we'reswitching.

Speaker 1 (55:26):
This isn't a gay thing.

Speaker 2 (55:28):
No, no, no, no.
I have a question.
This is a Southernism.

Speaker 1 (55:31):
We're friends, right.

Speaker 2 (55:32):
Yeah, what.

Speaker 1 (55:33):
Oh, you know we get called names as gay people and
there's, you know names orwhatever.
Do you straight people knowthat the gays call you breeders?
Do?

Speaker 2 (55:49):
you think they know that.
I don't know, and it's veryfunny how too in the evolution
when I came out in 1994.

Speaker 1 (56:01):
This breeder.

Speaker 2 (56:02):
And it's very interesting to me how all these
words or titles or definitionscome and go every few years and
certain things are acceptableand not acceptable.
And the funny thing is is howmy straight friends' perceptions

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are to certain words oh yeah,straight friends perceptions are
to certain words oh yeah and um.
I was talking to someone and Isaid queer, and one of my
straight friends says oh god,you can't that, you can't use
that word, that's derogatory.
I'm like no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
That used to be derogatory.

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Now that is acceptableterminology.
I was like so you can say thatword Honestly.
I could.

Speaker 1 (56:55):
I don't take any of the words that you want to call?
Derogatory, unless you use itin a derogatory.
I mean, if you call me a MF,something, then it's derogatory,
it's not that word.

Speaker 2 (57:08):
It's really not going to fire me up.
You could call me anything.
I would be like, hey, girl, isthat the best you got?
Honestly, none.
For whatever reason, I'mblessed in that way.
None of those terms, whetherthey're derogatory or not,

(57:30):
affect me, honestly, because Iknow who I am, I know what I am
and that does not affect me.
You can call me whatever youwant, from asshole to whatever.
I don't really care, because Iknow who I am and what I am and
that does not affect me.
That's true Whatsoever.

Speaker 1 (57:48):
But back to my question Do straight people know
that gay people call thembreeders?
Do y'all know that?

Speaker 2 (57:53):
Yeah, I don't know, it's just a fun way to refer to
straight people, breeders,breeders, those breeders blah
blah, blah.
And it's funny.
I refer people to otherrealtors and agents and whatnot.
So I had friends shopping for ahouse out of state and said

(58:18):
friend is in this house, andthis house is absolutely
phenomenal, it's fabulous.
I mean I looked at it and waslike queers live here, it's too
good, this place is nice.
But I was just thinking that Ididn't say that.
So they go look at this housewith realtors.

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Well, coincidentally, I hadreferred them to a gay agent,
not because he's gay, justbecause I knew him when he lived
here.
And he lives there.
So and they walk in and thelisting agent is there as well.
And my friend refers to the wifeof what a beautiful job she had

(59:03):
done decorating this house.
They're like and that agent waslike wife, you think breeders
live here?
These are gays.
Breeders can't do this.
And she said this in front ofmy friend.
That is an openly gay man andshe's like no offense, but we

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can't do this.
And he laughed.
He was like well, I didn't getthis gene either.
I can't do this either.
But I hear you that's funny.
So, yeah, it was funny that shesaid that and because my friend
had never heard that terminologyand she was like and she called
us breeders.
Yeah, I was like, yeah, abreeder.

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Yeah, you didn't know that, youdidn't know you were.

Speaker 1 (59:51):
Yeah, yeah, breeders can't do this, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

Speaker 2 (59:56):
That is funny.
So, continuing on Southernism,back to our segment Change,
change.
So we have to use this in asentence.
I have not had a change to dothat.
So the definition of change ischance C-H-A-N-C-E.

Speaker 1 (01:00:21):
Change.
I don't say that that's anolder grandmother.

Speaker 2 (01:00:25):
It is, it is, but it is a southern is, but it is a
southern it is a southern changeso if you are in the south and
you so, you hear someone say anddepending on how small town
deep south you get you could the?
The age can go down that youuse that word.
I haven't had a change to dothat yet.

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That's what that means.

Speaker 1 (01:00:49):
Walmart.

Speaker 2 (01:00:50):
Walmart, that's a Southern thing too, Walmart we
went to Walmart.

Speaker 1 (01:00:54):
I can't even say it that way.
Walmart is Walmart, walmart theCK.

Speaker 2 (01:00:59):
Walmart.

Speaker 1 (01:01:00):
Yeah, that's funny.
And red light oh, everything isa red light.

Speaker 2 (01:01:05):
Yeah, up there at and red light.

Speaker 1 (01:01:09):
Oh, everything is a red light.
Yeah, up there at the red light.
It's not traffic light, I never.
That is one that I still say.
And I have to correct myself.
I try to say traffic light,because it didn't dawn on me I
think someone mentioned it onetime that well, what if it's
green?
I'm like, oh Then it's a greenlight.

(01:01:30):
You take a left at that redlight, go up there three red
lights and turn right.

Speaker 2 (01:01:36):
And I was like that is a definite southern thing.
You think so?

Speaker 1 (01:01:42):
Other people don't do that.

Speaker 2 (01:01:43):
And the other thing is we'll wrap up southernisms
with this.
One is um coke there.
It's not pop, it's not softdrink, it's not soda coke.
Yeah, coke encompasses all ofthe soft you know what I say?
I hate I say soft drinksbecause, only because of mc

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McDonald's.

Speaker 1 (01:02:07):
And I like soft drink and I feel like that is more of
a commercial soft drink.
What kind of soft drink?
I have said Coke, and Iprobably still say that too, but
I hate pop, pop.
I want to punch you in the face.
When I hear pop, I feel likepop, and I may be wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:02:24):
So if you're from this area, let us know.
I think pop is like IllinoisMidwest Pennsylvania pop, but I
may be wrong.
I think it's just a northernthing.
Well, some of them say soda.
Tell us what are soft drinks.
What's a Coke to you In theSouth, generally speaking, North

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Carolina, South Carolina,Georgia, Tennessee Mm-hmm Coke.

Speaker 1 (01:02:54):
Yeah, what kind of Coke do you want?

Speaker 2 (01:02:56):
And that means what flavor Do you want?
Sprite Dr Pepper Coke?
It doesn't have to be Coke nono, but soft drink is Coke, yeah
here.

Speaker 1 (01:03:08):
What kind of Coke do you want?

Speaker 2 (01:03:09):
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 (01:03:10):
And that could be any brand, any flavor.

Speaker 2 (01:03:13):
Yeah, any soft drink, mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 (01:03:16):
I like soft drink.
I don't like pop.
I don't like pop.

Speaker 2 (01:03:21):
I don't know why, and here's one that bugs me Pop and
my godmother says this, andshe's from texas.
So this is a, this is a texasthing.
Well, texas is its own worldwell, in texas it, it's so big,
it's different areas, right, shesays cold drinks.
Well, what the hell is that?

Speaker 1 (01:03:42):
the hell is that?
No, that's a hurt, that's a herthing.

Speaker 2 (01:03:47):
No, no, I was watching something.

Speaker 1 (01:03:50):
What kind of cold drink you?

Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
want.
Yeah, that's a thing.
That is a regional thing andI'm like and for many years I
thought it was just her, yeah,no, that's a thing.
Cold drinks, she said.
I haven't had any cold drinksin a lot and I'm like, well,

(01:04:13):
what are you drinking?

Speaker 1 (01:04:14):
hot ones, that's funny, meaning she hadn't had a
coke, a soda, yeah, soft, drinka soft drink and I'm like you
were in mcdonald's, you shouldsay soft drink.

Speaker 2 (01:04:24):
Yeah, because it's bothering me that.
That's the only thing thatreally bothers me about her.
I should probably cover thatwith her, you should.
We're not going to say colddrink anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:04:34):
We're going to train you to say something different.

Speaker 2 (01:04:38):
We're going to go to soft drinks, so what do you call
them where you're from?

Speaker 1 (01:04:43):
Let us know.

Speaker 2 (01:04:44):
Is there one we're missing?
Cold drink, soft drink, soda.

Speaker 1 (01:04:48):
Coke, and you know, no one calls it a Pepsi in mean
general terms.
I hate Pepsi, me too, Do y'all?

Speaker 2 (01:04:54):
like Pepsi and I don't drink that many.
She, my godmother, she drinksPepsi products.
She only likes Pepsi, shedoesn't like Coke.
And I'm like it is wrong.

Speaker 1 (01:05:06):
Yeah, you know, like, like this is gonna sound bad or
whatever, but like I don'tdrink many soft drinks at all
anymore, I don't either.
But you know, growing up as akid and I born in the 80s and
the 90s it was very popular,super popular.
So we always had coke in myfamily coke, sprite, coke
products this is going back tomy actual brand.

Speaker 2 (01:05:28):
Yeah, my aunt that I didn't like bought pepsi, should
have known she wasn't no good.

Speaker 1 (01:05:32):
Then, right, I went to a friend's house and they had
pepsi.
I wouldn't drink it.
I wouldn't drink it and Ilow-key judged.
You didn't know it, but, liketo me, pepsi products were like
the no name it name.
It was like it was the Kmartyeah, the Kmart to Walmart yeah,
like Walmart when I was growingup was the better store and

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Kmart was the no name.
In my area here in the South.

Speaker 2 (01:05:58):
Now it would be Target.

Speaker 1 (01:06:00):
Target's the good one .
Pepsi would be Walmart.

Speaker 2 (01:06:03):
Yeah, target would be Coke.
And what really sealed the dealis you know mcdonald's is kind
of married to coke from the 50s,yeah, so I guess if well, you
know, pepsico kind of is withtaco bell, taco bell kfc, all
that but I wonder what if?
What if it'd been reversed?

(01:06:24):
Would I be be a Pepsi person?

Speaker 1 (01:06:26):
No, I can't imagine.
I can't imagine you wentslumped that low, Like even.

Speaker 2 (01:06:30):
Dylan, even Dylan, like.
We go to a restaurant and like,if we're like wanting a sweet,
we do not buy soft drinks forhome.
We drink water.
But maybe once a week when wego out we'll get a soft drink
and we ask do you have coke orpepsi products?
If they're say pepsi, we'relike yeah, we're probably not

(01:06:52):
gonna come back and you'reprobably not gonna go back our
favorite restaurant ingreenville carries coke products
trio downtown if you carrypepsi.

Speaker 1 (01:07:04):
To me it's always flat, it's too sweet, it's just.
And why were you not good?
To me, it's always flat, it'stoo sweet, it's just.
And why were you not goodenough to get Coke?
Yeah, it's like you couldn'tget the Coke licensing.

Speaker 2 (01:07:15):
Like it was just a little cheaper to get that Pepsi
yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:07:19):
You got a deal.
That's the stigma for sure.
It's like we're offending like50% of the people.
That's okay, Because theyendinglike 50 percent of the people.
That's like I drink Pepsi, butyou know, I'm sure it's what you
grew up on and I know for usCoke started in Atlanta and
Southern was Coke was morepredominant.
I feel like PepsiCo.

(01:07:39):
I don't know where they'rebased out of, but I feel like
that's also a northern.

Speaker 2 (01:07:42):
But we did.
Ironically, we had I don't knowif it's still in production
there's a Pepsi plant here inGreenville, isn't?
That weird, that is weird Idon't know.

Speaker 1 (01:07:55):
We got to pull this baby over.
We got to get a Coke.
We got to get a Coke and getthe hell out of here.
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